Body Unbeaten

by matt buchanan June 27, 2014

Ronald Herron, better known as the rapper Ra Diggs, “beat a body” once. He did not this time: The Gowanus Houses drug kingpin was convicted by a jury of three murders — including the one he had ducked in state court — and a number of drug and racketeering charges.

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